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| 2002-09-30 | The Ras Adiba affair becomes curiouser and curiouser The former TV personality, Ras Adiba Radzi, collected public
funds under false pretences, spent it all and more, and is in
hiding as questions swirl about her. She needed RM300,000 for a
major operation in Sydney to reverse her paralysis. The Prime
Minister and others came acalling, and soon RM90,000 more was
collected. It took less than a month, and is the first time in
Malaysian history that individual sums of RM100,000 were given
for a public appeal for medical help. She at first said she got
only RM340,000, but after her return from Australia, insists it
was only RM240,000. She could not pay her final bill of
RM40,000, which the Malaysian consul in Sydney and a student met
with their credit cards. When she returned last week, she said
she was under orders not to talk about her treatment.
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| 2002-09-25 | Ras Adiba Radzi returns -- with a new spin When a reporter asked the Prime Minister, Dato' Seri Mahathir
Mohamed, an innocuous question about the former newscaster, Ras Adiba Radzi, he made it clear he would not answer any questions
about her. She had told the world she needed RM300,000 for a
desperately-needed operation in Australia, got RM90,000 more, the
funds rolling in after Dr Mahathir and his wife, the deputy prime
minister, Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, and his wife, and
others called on her at Pantai Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur.
She was paralysed. The treatment she needed was not available in
Malaysia. And off she went.
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| 2002-08-27 | Ras Adiba tries hard to convince she did right Ras Adiba Radzi, on a public relations offensive, insists, in
interviews with the Malaysian media from her hospital bed in
Sydney she is incapacitated as she is. She would donate what is
left of the RM390,000 -- she now says only RM340,000 was
received, RM40,000 more than she needed -- to others in need.
She dribbles in unaccustomed medical terms to convince Malaysians
she is ill. She fudges when inconvenient questions are asked,
and would rather it be not raised at all. No one denies she is
in pain for a life-debilitating medical condition.
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| 2002-08-07 | Why Ras Adiba Gets Help But Not The Poor The national unity and social development minister, Datin Siti
Zahara Sulaiman, tells us the National Welfar Foundation donates
RM5,000 to the former TV newscaster, Ras Adiba, but denies them
to the poor who sought help for urgent medical treatment. The
poor did not follow procedure. Nor did Ras Adiba. But she
did not need to since, as the minister explained, the NWF
donation was
not on need but on ministerial discretion as a "token gesture of
support. And that overrides all else. She does not say why
the same discretion is not applied when the poor turn to
the NWF for aid. What "token gesture of support" does Datin Siti
Zahara talk of? Ras Adiba did what the poor did, admit herself
to a private hospital. She did not apply for aid, she would not
have qualified, as the poor are not, so why this special "token
gesture of support"?
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| 2002-08-04 | Ras Adiba: Curiouser and curiouser The Ras Adiba affair becomes curiouser and curiouser by the day.
All she needed is to ascertain if a titanium plate imbedded in
her boday, after an accident, to ease the pain was in place.
That could easily be in Kuala Lumpur -- even Pantai Medical
Centre, where she checked herself in under the care of not
specialists, but her personal physician. She would not allow the
PMC to release her medical records, she appealed for funds on her
own, she decided she wanted to go to Sydney for what turns out to
be a routine procedure available in the Klang Valley. The only
specialists she consulted were a neurologist and a psychiatrist;
no orthopaedic surgeon, either at the PMC or in the Klang Valley,
was. The medical fraternity at the PMC are deeply troubled by
what happened.
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| 2002-08-03 | Ras Adiba: So A Surgery Is Was Not So it turns out to be a scam. A fortnight ago, the former TV
newscaster, Ras Adiba Khalid, said she was paralysed from the
waist down, needed urgent surgery in Australia that cost
RM300,000 she did not have. After the Prime Minister, Dato' Seri
Mahathir Mohamed, visited her at the Pantai Medical Centre,
donations rolled in at breakneck speed, about RM100,000 more than
she needed. Off she went to Sydney, accompanied by relatives and
a doctor from PMC. All she needed, it turns out, was some tests
to check on her earlier surgery and physiotherapy, both readily
available here. The only orthopaedic surgeon she consulted was
from the PMC. Yet the PMC says it did not recommend, nor
suggest, surgery, and retreats into doctor-patient
confidentiality when pressed for answers.
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| 2002-07-28 | A Surgery That Could Have Protected UMNO From Seismic Shocks The Prime Minister, Dato' Seri Mahathir Mohamed, visited the
former TV3 television newscaster, Miss Ras Adiba Radzi, paralysed
from the waist down after a car accident, and, hey presto, she
gets more public donations than she needs for an orthopaedic
operation in Australia. She needed RM300,000, no one cared for
her until this visit, and within days, RM90,000 more was
collected. Even TV3, on the brink of bankruptcy, ignored her
plight until then and somehow found RM80,000.
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